In Touch (Magill’s Literary Annual 1995)
At a glance:
- Author: Paul Bowles
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Letters
- Time of Work: 1928-1991
- Setting: The United States, Europe, Africa, Asia, and South America
- Principal Characters: Paul Bowles, Rena Bowles, Claude Bowles, Jane Auer Bowles, William Burroughs, Aaron Copland, Allen Ginsberg, Gertrude Stein
- Genres: Nonfiction, Letters
- Subjects: Language or languages, United States or Americans, Africa or Africans, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Europe or Europeans, Marriage, Poetry or poets, Asia or Asians, Composers, South America or South Americans, Self-revelations
- Locales: Africa, Europe, United States, Asia, South America
Paul Bowles has lived a fascinating life, one that has stretched across continents and cultures. In novels such as The (1949)and in the rich array of shorter works assembled in his Collected Stories, 1939-1976 (1979) and Too Far from Home: The Selected Writings of Paul Bowles (1993), Bowles has entertained, startled, and enlightened six decades of readers. While his life story has been recounted in the unauthorized biography An Invisible Spectator (1989) and Bowles’s cautious autobiography Without Stopping (1972), readers and critics have always sensed that...
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